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Sky Elements and Damoda America set two Guinness World Records in Texas: a 10,183-drone dragon and 71,207 drones launched in a week, on Chinese hardware.
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have four stories for you this week: the DJI Neo 3 has a video leak, Sky Elements sets a Guinness World Record, the FAA hands out $12 million to drone test sites, and the FBI doubles its counter-drone school capacity.
FBI counter-drone teams are enforcing the Balloon Fiesta TFR, but the FAA's two NOTAMs run 5:30 a.m. to noon and 4 to 8 p.m. daily, not around the clock.
A 2,977-drone tribute rebuilt the Twin Towers at full architectural scale over New York Harbor, one light for every life lost on 9/11.
The FCC's swarm rule names drone light shows as military-grade. The US industry flies Korean and Chinese hardware. Comments close September 2.
Hundreds of drones lifted off above Charleston Harbor on Saturday night, retelling the Battle of Sullivan’s Island in light formations above the U.S. Custom House as part of the Revolutionary Skies celebration. The show capped a Carolina Day program organized by SC250 Charleston, the city’s coordinating body for South Carolina’s 250th anniversary commemorations, and ran…
Seattle is running a drone scoreboard for the six 2026 FIFA World Cup matches it hosts, with a 400-drone Sky Elements show flying after dark over Seattle Center to project the final score and both flags alongside the Space Needle. The first show ran Monday, June 15 after the Belgium-Egypt match, and the program continues…
Seven hundred drones rose over Barcelona on June 10 and slowly assembled the face of a man who died exactly one hundred years earlier. Antoni Gaudí, the architect of the Sagrada Família, looked down on his unfinished masterpiece in points of light while crowds watched from the streets below. Hours earlier, Pope Leo XIV had…
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